drankula3

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by drankula3 6y ago
I'm Luke Hackworth, developer of this site. It's really difficult to find new websites nowadays. The big players penalize posts that lower engagement outside of their own sites, meaning most people are only exposed to a tiny porti
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Show HN: Feldot – Explore the Web Together(feldot.com)
2 points by drankula3 6y ago|1 comments
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by drankula3 7y ago
> Why do you need Active Directory or LDAP? Primarily authentication, authorization, and accounting[0]. Setting up a new user account on every single computer that an employee may at some point sit at gets very expensive. Many businesses
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by drankula3 7y ago
I'm a systems administrator for a small MSP. I've used Linux as my primary OS for 9 years, despise using Windows, and I can tell you with 100% confidence that nothing but Windows is ready for prime time, and for one major reason:
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by drankula3 7y ago
Yeah, a single iso can be recovered from multiple disks with different damaged sections using software like ddrescue[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddrescue
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by drankula3 7y ago
I would agree with this if not for my recent experience with duckduckgo. While Google's search result quality has sharply deteriorated in recent months, duckduckgo's results have stayed flat for the most part, to the point where d
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by drankula3 7y ago
Spam: unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as e-mails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places[1]. By that definition, it is spam. > user testing has been d
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by drankula3 7y ago
Defaults matter. And currently, Firefox fills their new tab page with spam and self-promotion by default.
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My side project failed. How it worked and why it didn’t succeed(lhackworth.com)
2 points by drankula3 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How to collect payments for a SaaS web app?
10 points by drankula3 7y ago|4 comments
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by drankula3 7y ago
I said "Each of those are basically ads for paid products." OneDrive and Office 365 do fully autoinstall, and if it's impossible for a layman to differentiate between an ad and a native app, I consider it at least partially a
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by drankula3 7y ago
I work at a MSP and install Windows almost daily. On most systems, I install Windows Professional version 1903, the latest version. On all of those, Candy crush, Skype, One Drive, Office, and a myriad of other App Store apps autoinstall. Ea
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by drankula3 7y ago
Neat idea. What's the revenue model for this?
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by drankula3 7y ago
For python, check out pygame. It's outdated and only works with 2.7, but I think it can be installed with apt on Ubuntu and will teach the basics like rendering loops, frames, etc.
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by drankula3 7y ago
Technology always leads to new norms and standards of living. We have medicine that cures infections that would have absolutely killed us a hundred years ago. We have machines that can route blood around your heart while doctors replace it
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by drankula3 7y ago
This seems fun. Any advice on getting started? It's so tough to find new sites. I tried making a website before to find new interesting sites, but it never took off.
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Ask HN: How do you find a startup partner?
2 points by drankula3 7y ago|1 comments
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by drankula3 7y ago
This is frightening. I use newpipe and depend on Google for work, email, and data storage. I use Google cloud to host my websites, and Google domains to control their domain names. What's next? Will they suspend an account for using an
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by drankula3 7y ago
Ironic? It makes sense to me that someone who understands the mechanisms of addiction would know how to break the cycle.
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by drankula3 7y ago
It's an ultrasonic vaporizer. Below is a link talking about it. https://youtu.be/aKhPj7uFD0Y
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by drankula3 7y ago
In that case, "I'm downvoting you because you're wrong" could be condensed to "you're wrong."
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by drankula3 7y ago
WGU graduate here, I received my Bachelor of Science in Information Technology last year, averaging 24 credits per term. WGU has been good for the credential and for seriously strengthening my ability to self-learn, but it hasn't been
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by drankula3 7y ago
This is Luke Hackworth, founder of this site. Years ago I manually portscanned random IP addresses to find interesting servers, and experienced a tremendous sense of exploration in doing so. Feldot is my attempt to bring that sense of explo
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Show HN: Find and Explore Interesting Websites Together(feldot.com)
2 points by drankula3 7y ago|2 comments
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by drankula3 7y ago
That's great, that's fun. What's the business value of using gifs in business discussion though? I thought they were almost exclusively used for emotional expression only.
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by drankula3 7y ago
I'm currently learning Django to do exactly this. How did you handle monetization and marketing, if you don't mind me asking?
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by drankula3 7y ago
I'm making a website aggregator currently on https://feldot.com . Most people are increasingly siloed into small portions of the internet. The idea of this site is to provide tools to a small portion of content creators that
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Ask HN: What demographic to target with a new social media site?
3 points by drankula3 7y ago|0 comments
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by drankula3 8y ago
> Clients? We use Xabber on our android phones, and I use Pidgin on my laptop. It works well enough, though Xabber is a bit annoying as it leaves a notification on the screen all of the time. Pidgin also doesn't come with OTR native
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by drankula3 8y ago
It's funny this post is being created now. Google Hangouts was the primary method that my wife and I used to chat. I could talk to my wife while she was at work, even if I had no idea where my phone was. Its shutdown prompted me to loo

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